would complete strights sound good on my 1997 gt i want it to be lound as possible but not sound like shi!.

you have a v6, so it would sound like shit

ok i herd one on u tube that souind good to me i was jw

Loud but good would be remove your resonator and replace your mufflers with summit race welded, dynomax ultra welded or magnaflows. If you ever plan on doing a DP, keep your resonator. Hear my sound clips here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/72chevman/CarStuff
These clips are before and after my DP install.

OK, it is not my thing, but it sounds like you are young and may enjoy the sound, so I have heard a lumina with the 3800 who had kept the resonator but went with small glasspacks (18") instead of mufflers with chrome tips. It was rather loud and abnoxious to me, but a lot of teens liked it.

Heres my clip, full 2.5" Stainless, u-bend, resinator gone, w/ Cherry Bomb Vortex Muffs

http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x258/nice-try/?action=view¤t=004.flv

Straight Pipes are way TOOOOOO loud and I think they sound awful!

do not go straight pipe.

I've heard straight pipes on the 3800, it made me wanna puke on a baby seal then hit it


it was bad

straight pipes on almost any car is F-ing Dumb. my opinion stay with stock muffs and get a new DP and some new tips.

open downpipe with a quicktime or another electric cutout FTW!!!!!!

I'm glad you said almost. Click on open headers on following link

http://www.dynomax.com/sounds/flash/sounds.html

Open headers and straight pipe sounds good on our cars...

AT IDLE!

You even TOUCH the gas and the coolness factor hits rock bottom and then an extra few thousand miles.

At the track the other day, my exhaust came off at the collection pipe for my pacesetters. Pre-cat. It was;

-Louder than heck
-Scarier than heck
-The most painful brain-bruising drone I have EVER heard in my life.

I have a video clip of straight pipes for mufflers and a holey resonator, will post it this evening.

straight pipes sound great on many older cars i dont know what you are talking about....personaly on our cars i wouldnt do it....if you get a nice exhaust and dp it will sound decently loud and you can get a cutout for when you want it really loud temperarily

Open side pipes on a Cobra? Yes, please!

Our cars? Go jump off a cliff. I made the mistake of taking a test drive of my car with just a glasspack on it down the road (first drive after swap). Not only did it sound horrible, I thought my head would explode.

Try driving without tips on. Wanna talk about headache.

one exhaust sytem I tried after installing my hi-flow cat was one single long glasspak inplace of the resonator (u-bend gone) and a pair of resonated tips.
this combo sounded awesome at idle or just barely breathing on the pedal but anything in the area of 2k rpm was rattling the windows in the car and shaking the fillings out of my teeth. Lets not even talk about a WOT blast, but fist shaking neighbors as well as mothers taking kids off the street might give you some idea...not to mention my vision going blurry from gritting my teeth so hard...maybe I should say gnashing instead of gritting.

Even if your the kind that digs a loud car (and I do love one that talks to me) a system like this will have you back at the exhaust shop in less than a month...save yourself the headache and have a little reserve the first time...these engines need a chambered muffler to make them bearable.

tips do that much herc?

if you have the exhaust ending beneath the car, its gonna reverberate everything back at the car

yea i know the exhaust would be reverberated back through the car didnt know it ending a couple inches before the rear bumper made it do it that much more....i know my cutout did if unbelievably but i thought the foam and plastic bumper wouldn't transmit that much drone good to know

Even the Sidepiped Cobras and Vettes have baffles in them, or are chambered

But even if it was a straight pipe custom setup it would sounds nasty...those baffles are more for people next to you driving rather then interior res. of the car its on

Well, videos of straight pipe setup are worthless, my phone's microphone didn't pick it up at all...

Suffice it to say others are correct, sounds very nice at startup, drones terribly at cruise (35, 45, 70+). Is fine coasting or going WOT in my opinion, but for DD on non-flat terrain, it gets very old...

Please don't laugh I keep hearing everyone talking on about a resonator. I been up under my many of times and I was wondering where is it located and what does it look like.

tips -> muffler -> resonator -> cat -> downpipe -> engine

You want a loud car? how about NO pipes! j/k